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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-12 14:43:48
I'm well aware of the 2GB HFS limit, but that is a file system limit, not a hardware limit. If you have your card and bigger media, please give it a shot. I'd .be interested in the hardware limits of this card, as I'm sure all purchasers are. . Mine is coming by eBay Global Shipping Program do I probably won't get it for another week.
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2013-10-12 16:14:41
I only have an 8GB card here at the moment. I need to order a bigger one anyway, so might as well.
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Posted by: techknight on 2013-10-13 19:57:16
I had a 2GB sandisk compactflash card. Tried it out, but the patched apple SC wouldnt see it. And the drive setup said Unsupported disk.
Sooo, I used micronet and it seen the capacity, partitioned it, and is booting on my 520c 68K parts machine (used it as a test base). Full partition, since its 2GB. works fine.
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Posted by: Paralel on 2013-10-14 02:31:15
Micronet, never heard of it. Who made it?
Also, now we know it can do at least 2 GB. I'll report back once I have my 4 GB card.
Great to hear these are all working out so well for everyone. We made a real find considering the cost of the alternative.
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-10-14 08:54:01
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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-14 11:24:00
Did you also get one and did something not work? Please let us know.
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-10-14 16:32:22
Nope, the second time I looked they'd gone poof! :-/
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-10-15 15:03:37
Rob Blessin of Black Hole (NeXT gear) mentioned on the nextcomputers.org forums that he bought a bunch of Adtron flash drives.
Rob Blessin[/url]"]I picked up 10 ADTRON 192Mb scsi flash drives and they work great |
Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-15 15:23:23
Yes, but I think they're different. He also mentioned they only worked at 192MB and seemed to be locked at that level in firmware. I believe they are SSD drives and not the older ones we have (if mine would ever come). His may be like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adtron-192MB-50-Pin-3-5-SCSI-Solid-State-Data-Drive-SSD-S35F-192CAB1-/200917908888 but I can't get on the forums to ask 🙂
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-10-15 16:06:29
Well with an install of 7.5 on the Adtron my powerbook 100 and I got sad Mac. I am reinstalling it to see if that will fix it as the two 512 mb cards showed up.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-10-15 16:21:36
Well hard disk toolkit 2.5 needs a 68030 or better so I guess I need to find something that works on the adtron that works on a 68000 like silver lining or something.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-10-15 16:32:00
Of course I don't have anything older yet so this will be fun.
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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-15 16:51:57
Well with an install of 7.5 on the Adtron my powerbook 100 and I got sad Mac. I am reinstalling it to see if that will fix it as the two 512 mb cards showed up. Had a look at this? http://www.jagshouse.com/hdscsetup.html
Patch file (I think) http://www.macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=22031
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-10-15 17:22:11
Patched apple file won't see it. Tried that first, the drive works fine in my 540 so if I can't get something that is 68000 compatible then I'll just put another drive in I guess.
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2013-10-15 17:28:40
Are these adapters showing up as removable SCSI devices? Something like that might trip up even a patched HD SC Setup.
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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-15 17:35:26
I was also thinking that maybe filling only one CF slot would help. I don't know how the two CF cards show up (do they just look like one drive?) but maybe that would help?
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Posted by: Paralel on 2013-10-15 18:05:02
I put a 4GB CF in slot 1 of my Adtron adapter and Hard Disk SpeedTools 3.3 had no trouble seeing it and turning it into 2 2GB HFS partitions. I put a system folder on the main drive and it booted up no problem. So, we now know for sure that 2GB is not the upper limit of these adapters.
This sucker flies! It has to be at least an order of magnitude faster than the 320MB 2.5" SCSI drive I had in there.
Mine also has the older 1998 2.02 firmware, so that does not appear to be a limitation.
From what I was reading, one needs to have two identical CF cards to use both slots, you can't use two different types.
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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-15 18:11:31
That's great to hear Paralel.
I'm hoping mine comes tomorrow. For me, I have the single slot version. I went with this one because I was worried about the compatibility with the two slots. I thought they may show up as LUNs and older Macs would have a problem with that. This proves that wrong because can only go with one slot. I'm glad to be wrong in this case 🙂
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Posted by: Paralel on 2013-10-15 18:18:42
Hard Disk Speedtools showed the 1 compact drive as SCSI0 // LUN0.
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Posted by: snuci on 2013-10-15 18:50:46
I only have an 8GB card here at the moment. I need to order a bigger one anyway, so might as well. Were you able to try the 8GB card? Seems the 8GB card is cheaper than the 4GB card here so confirmation that it worked would be great.
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